The OCA will be conducting a Mountain Bike Commissaire Course in Spring 2000. This will be a two-part course consisting of classrom instruction and a practical session at a sanctioned MTB race. The classroom instruction takes place Saturday May 13, 2000 from 10h00 to 16h00 at the OCA office at the Sport Alliance of Ontario building in Toronto. The practical session will take place at the Canada Cup MTB Race at Hardwood Hills on May 28, 2000 where students will be assigned commissaire duties. Upon completion of this course, you will be entitled to apply for a MTB Provincial C commissaire licence and will be eligible to be assigned to OCA-sanctioned MTB events in Ontario. All registrants receive a free copy of the 2000 CCA Cycling Rule Book. Please contact Dave Spurgeon via e-mail at louiseweavers@home.com for more information and to register for the course. Fee is $50.00. Course instructor is Fred Seemann. Space may be limited, so apply early.

Manitoba Midweek Results(courtesy Dave Benson)

The Olympia Kids of Mud Mountain Bike Race Program kicked off the year 2000 in fine form on April 25th with fifty four riders competing in four categories under age seventeen. It was a perfect evening for the first race at Bird's Hill Provincial Park. Results are as follows:

Junior W

1

Biluk, Christie

Cadet

1

Harris, Mike

2

Lang, Ben

3

Foidart, Marc

4

Bietz, Philip

5

Powney, Adam

6

Woods, Graeme

7

Derhak, Sean

8

Allen, Tommy

9

Enns , Justin

10

Beckel, Aaron

11

Letkeman, Jordan

12

Mohan, Liam

13

Gagnon, Collin

14

Stadnyk, Justin

15

Beckel, Tyler

16

Kratsch, Kevin

17

Hawcroft, Jason

18

Wiebe, Kyle

19

Ayers, Josh

20

Biluk, Jamie

21

Phillips , Brian

22

Iafolla, Paul

Minime

1

Scheepers, Eric

2

Staniforth, Chris

3

Hawranik, Drew

4

Benson, Jon

5

Foidart, Eric

6

Johnson, Drew

7

Roch, Francois

8

Hawranik, Jay

9

Butcher, Chris

10

Sohor, Davis

11

Deacon, James

13

Skrypnyk, Cameron

14

Bergen, Scott

PeeWee

1

Lacko, Nicholas

2

Benson, Paul

3

Campeau, Cameron

4

Hawcroft, Greg

5

Dowsett, Daryl

6

Kelsch, Jordan

7

Foks, Martin

8

Berry, Kyle

9

Baldwin, Daniel

10

McComas, Kyle

11

Guertin, Cole

Gaffers <10

1

Wiebe, Mark

2

McLean, Michael

3

Poneira, Wesley

4

Campeau, JC

5

Houston, Blake

6

Page, Zach

7

Bergen, Jason

The first week night race of the year got off to a good start in spite of a last minute change of location, a ten minute bike ride from the original start line. Twenty five riders flew around the trials in Bird's Hill Park on April 25th. Full list of results is as follows:

all other starters get 2 pointsstarters 61, finishers 48please note: there were 4 people riding who didn't enter. If this practice continues, the race will be stopped and non-entrants will be requested to leave the circuit.